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>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

>Uh, that guy is a nut

Hey, I don't deny that (although he seems the rather decent sort of nut). But there's better stuff on his site than the dictionary to show it (hey, apart from the added pointless crap, the dictionary is accurate):

Which flags are correct
People who can't fly a flag properly
National Anthem Etiquette
Response rate to rants (thank God he isn't on slashdot)
142 things people need to explain to him
And a link because, hey, why the hell not
The answer is: You got the "troll" tag added to your account. Try not calling for a year and see if that helps.

Now, perhaps someone can explain to me why I am still up?

Try this dictionary. Unfortunately, the author has some copyright rules that'd make Microsoft cry, so it might not be the best source, although it is accurate.

Try this dictionary. Unfortunately, the author has some copyright rules that'd make Microsoft cry, so it might not be the best source, although it is accurate.

>"I could care less", in the context of disinterest, is some kind of threat to care less about something, which ironically matters little to an adversarial opponent.

Immediately, no. Assuming the opponent wants you to care more, your attitude would be considered far more displeasurable than someone who is already at their bottom of caring about something, wouldn't it? Which is the point, right?

Which bugs you more? Someone saying they'll continue to care even less in the future about something you love, or someone who says they are caring, right now, as little as they believe possible?

>Either way, reversing the sense of the well understood "I couldn't care less" is no way to obtain emphasis of the original sense.

Which is well understood depends heavily on where you are... the alt.usage.english FAQ explains this best:

The idiom "couldn't care less", meaning "doesn't care at all" (the meaning in full is "cares so little that he couldn't possibly care less"), originated in Britain around 1940. "Could care less", which is used with the same meaning, developed in the U.S. around 1960.

(No, they don't conclude which is "right", leading one to assume that what's right depends on where you are located when speaking the phrase).

>love/hate and time are two dimensions

Again, how do you view love/hate? To you, is hate a zero-gain emotion, and love a positive emotion, without a neutral? Or is hate a negative emotion, and love a positive, with a neutral state (and many others) between?

To have a negative requires a double-ended scale, and that means two dimensions (a point on a line,) rather than a simple on/off decision (you either love it or you hate it).

To me that implies two dimensions: A love dimension, and a hate dimension. And, yeah, in my world, you *can* love and hate something; both at the same time. I love honey dip donuts with sprinkles, but I hate the way they always end up stuck in my teeth.

Although, I suppose it's all just nitpicking, really. :-)

>Only in some kind of tightly closed society would the phrase "I couldn't care less about cars" mean that abstruse superposition of states.

Hey now... are you trying to say Americans are better, or worse, than everyone else (or just no opinion at all?) Hmmm... I'm Canadian. I guess I get to decide which is right (why the hell does he go to so much trouble, and yet not clear this up?!) Thank God for not being mentioned.